Life is good for Joanna Brady in the small desert
community of Bisbee. She has Jenny, her adored nine-year-
old daughter, and solid, honest, and loving husband, Andy,
a local lawman who's running for Sheriff of Cochise
County. But her good life explodes when a bullet destroys
Andy Brady's future and leaves him dying beneath the
blistering Arizona sun.

The police brass claim that Andy was dirty -- up to his
neck in drugs and smuggling -- and that the shooting was a
suicide attempt. Joanna knows a cover-up when she hears
one...and murder when she sees it. But her determined
efforts to track down an assassin and clear her husband's
name are placing herself and her Jenny in serious
jeopardy. Because, in the desert, the truth can be far
more lethal than a rattler's bite.